There are some drugs which are abused and therefore, some people become addicted to them. In Jordan, they have certain street names.

During the psychiatry course that I am currently taking in the Pscyhiatry Hospital in Fuhis (مستشفى المركز الوطني للطب النفسي), the names of such drugs were mentioned more than once. We, as future doctors, will not be able to apply our medical knowledge if we did not know what the people in the streets are calling the drugs. If an addict tells me that he is taking “برازيلي”, then I should not expect him to tell me the generic name of this drug (Clonazepam). I need to know this information myself!!!

I tried to search for a webpage which summarizes the generic names, trade names, and street names; I didn’t find any. So I decided to publish one. I will not be only studying for my exam (in case I was asked about the topic), but also, creating what I hope is a helfpul page to my fellow Jordanian medical students who will be studying psychiatry and will be searching for the same information.

After much searching on the internet, in addition to the some information that I was given by my Psychiatry doctor (Dr. Mohammed Al-Debeh), I was able to arrive at the following summary. I included the references for the information written in the table below.